Blogosphere: Seattle Rail Plans, Benefits Of Bike Friendly District, SF Dig's Mammoth Find, Walkable Urbanism, Cities As Labs
September 14, 2012
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| Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America. |
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Commentary: Budget Will Dedicate $5M for Rail Plans The Stranger At last month's groundbreaking for Sound Transit's Northgate Link light rail line, you could see the excitement on everyone's faces. Families, commuters, and business owners came out to celebrate the coming of rail to the University District, Roosevelt, and Northgate... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Reasons to Create Bike Friendly District Transportation Issues Daily We asked a national expert, April Economides, to educate us about those benefits. Earlier this week Economides explained the concept of BFBDs and how they are spreading throughout the community earlier this week in our story "Emerging Trend: Bicycle-Friendly Business Districts.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Transbay Center Digs Up Mammoth Bones Curbed SF The Transbay Transit Center will be an epicenter for the future of regional transit, but this week workers found something from the site's past - 11,000 years ago to be more specific... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Why 30 Minute Commute is Here to Stay Per Square Mile I pondered that question a few weeks ago after perusing American Community Survey data compiled by Charlie Gardner. It showed that most people in most metro areas in the United States tended to commute about 30 minutes each way to work, give or take a few.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Walkable Urbanism is the Future DC Streetsblog Chris Leinberger wears too many hats to count - real estate developer, George Washington University professor, Brookings fellow - but he has one message: "Walkable urbanism is the future.".. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Pay Attention to Crime Near Landmarks? Salon Of all the crimes that occurred in New York City over the past month, three became bona fide water-cooler fodder: The knife-wielding man in Times Square, killed by police in a hail of bullets; the Empire State Building shooter, a disgruntled employee who went after his boss with a handgun.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Inspired by Bermuda's Mr. Happy Urban Times Besides the Bermuda triangle, what is Bermuda famous for? The answer is Johnny Barnes. This cheerful man is certainly one of the synonyms for this exotic island... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Cities as Labs for Change Metropolis Magazine Cities everywhere are entering a new era of unprecedented collaboration as well as competition. If they are to thrive, they need to be great places... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Love Destroying Rome's Infrastructure Atlantic Cities Really, Italy? You've romanticized something that mischievous highschoolers have been doing on school fences for ages?.. Read On |
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Blogosphere: Transforming Houston w Bayou Greenways City Parks Blog Imagine Atlanta's Beltline meeting Portland's Master Bike Plan, and you'll get a strong sense of what the completed Houston Bayou Greenways will look like over the next decade. And that's why there is so much excitement over what the City of Houston is doing for its urban parks... Read On |
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Blogosphere: If Want Walkable Dev, Must Show It Pays The Atlantic Cities Mariela Alfonzo remembers when she really got the message about what's important to real estate developers. She was discussing big-box stores with an investor in Orange County, California, who had put a lot of dollars into strip malls and megastores... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Full Steam Ahead on Burb Skyscrapers Greater Greater Washington Within the confines of the District of Columbia, the question of whether to allow tall buildings is a subject of much debate. But in the burgeoning urban centers of Northern Virginia and suburban Maryland, there is no question: more tall buildings are coming... Read On |
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Blogosphere: Heritage TOD in New Jersey Wake Up, Washtenaw! Back in July, I wrote about looking at transit-oriented development (TOD) in three phases: Heritage, Mature, and Young. today, I'd like to take a look at New Jersey's "heritage TOD", based primarily on a visit in March, this year... Read On |
